The Mystery Shopping thread - part 6

ellie9ellie

blindman wrote: »

I do know of one company that does overseas hotels, but their reports require 11,000 words :eek:.

You do get to stay for two nights in a 5* hotel though!;)

11,000 words - what like in a short story or something lol If I do by the luck of the gods get a flight I'll PM you for their details x

ellie9ellie

cookinmummy wrote: »

I have had this before - thats standard response in one of my local po's and I have never had any queries from Gap about it - sure it will be fine.;)

BTW - hello everyone! I know i'm an awol mse ms'r - but I'm still about! Hope you are all doing ok?

Hello stranger - how you doing? Lot's of work on? xx

cookinmummy

ellie9ellie wrote: »

Hello stranger - how you doing? Lot's of work on? xx

No not much - taking it easy ( as you well know missy from me last email :rolleyes::rotfl:)!

flyingscottie81

Thanks Emmabo - have replied to you!

ellie9ellie

cookinmummy wrote: »

No not much - taking it easy ( as you well know missy from me last email :rolleyes::rotfl:)!

.......I'm now going back to re-read e-mail......... Tierdness is definetely overtaking me. I so need to sleep lol

blindman

ellie9ellie wrote: »

11,000 words - what like in a short story or something lol If I do by the luck of the gods get a flight I'll PM you for their details x

If it were only that easy:D

They MS 4 high class hotels in London, (I've done 3 of them so far.) and loads of 4-5* hotels resorts around the world.:D

The expenses run to over £1K :eek: and the hotel bill gets reversed about 7-14 days after a successful report.

The fee for doing the job is about 15x a RE hotel fee.:rolleyes:

Their standard of report writing is "special" and their attention to detail is TBH "Bl**dy ludicous:eek: "

Pros
Two nights in a 5* hotel in London (and around the world).
7 Nights cruises around the world (have to be experienced-getting there;) )
3-4 nights in top class resorts around the world.
Travel expenses to London are generous and can be quite good to worldwide destinations.



Cons
11,000 word report in incredible detail. Must submit within 36 hours.
Specialised form of report writing.
Expense outlay of minimum £1,000-refunded after about 14 days.

So who does these jobs?
Very experienced MS who;

1. Can afford to outlay £1K on a credit card and wait a few weeks for the refunds.

2. Can make notes on up to 40 scenarios over two days and then submit the report within 36 hours.

3. Is "at home" in 4-5* hotels (no chavs please :rolleyes: ).

4. Who want to then go onto the more specialised Cruises

If any one is still interested :eek: then Pm me your email address and I'll fill in the blanks.

tigergold

Thanks Blindman - a very informative and interesting post.
This is something I would love to get into, I'm doing more "high end" shops lately & want to progress - so thanks again for that insight.

moptortoise

Wow, that sounds like a mission and a half. I would happily have a go, but what if they then do a GAP on the ms and they are left with a 1k hotel bill. It's a bit of a risk isn't it?:o

tigergold

moptortoise wrote: »

Wow, that sounds like a mission and a half. I would happily have a go, but what if they then do a GAP on the ms and they are left with a 1k hotel bill. It's a bit of a risk isn't it?:o

omg - could you imagine, I'd have a heart attack !!
I think you would have to be really confident and vey experienced to go ahead with this sort of thing. I would probably end up reading the questionaire a million times. Not sure how the questions are set out, but I personally would prefer to write a mini thesis compared with the million (well 30 ish) questions plus comments RE want answered - all for the sake of a coffee:rotfl:
It also seems like they pay a real fee so even if the report takes 5 hours to write up at least your time is paid for

ghostmadlittlemiss

Hi, I've just signed up for my first assignment but they want a digital timing device that records seconds. I was going to use my mobile phone but I've just found it doesn't seem to work for that. Can anyone recommend me anything?
Kayleigh